German far-right party outlines plan to solve migrant crisis

Migrants crossing into Germany in October last year. The AfD wants to ban them from bringing in family membersGetty Images

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has pledged to cut all financial aid for refugees and to change the law to stop family members from joining them.

A party policy document recommends holding those of “uncertain identity” in offshore camps away from mainland Europe until their bona fides can be established. The camps, the leadership propose, should be in north Africa, Turkey, western Syria and Libya and be overseen by the EU.

The new refugee manifesto from AfD, which has beaten Angela Merkel’s CDU conservatives in several regional polls this year, comes less than 12 months before next year’s general election.

This has led to accusations that the party is resorting to the jargon of the Nazis.

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